Local Election Results 2006
South Lakeland
One-third of council up for election. No elections this year in the Ulverston wards, the Windermere wards or any of the rural wards except Sedbergh. The election in Kirkby Lonsdale this year was a by-election.
SWHG = Save Westmorland Hospital Group
Other results for South Lakeland:
2002
2003
2004
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019
By-elections for South Lakeland (may be incomplete): 10th March 2005 (Crake Valley; Ulverston C.)
— 4th November 2010 (Lyth Valley)
— 9th February 2012 (Windermere Town)
— 29th August 2013 (Windermere Bowness N.)
— 17th October 2013 (Levens)
— 2nd October 2014 (Windermere Town)
— 13th October 2016 (Windermere Bowness N.)
— 4th May 2017 (Ambleside & Grasmere)
— 20th December 2018 (Arnside & Milnthorpe)
— 6th May 2021 (Broughton & Coniston; Furness Peninsula; Grange; Kendal Rural)
Results for Cumbria county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Liberal Democrat |
10131 |
66.4% |
17 |
| Conservative |
3475 |
22.8% |
1 |
| Labour |
1218 |
8.0% |
0 |
| Independent |
251 |
1.6% |
0 |
| Save Westmorland Hospital Group |
150 |
1.0% |
0 |
| Green Party |
35 |
0.2% |
0 |
| Sonia Lawson |
LD |
612 |
75.2% |
| Enid Robinson |
C |
202 |
24.8% |
| Enda Farrell |
LD |
512 |
73.6% |
| Simon Butterfield |
C |
152 |
21.8% |
| Nicola Wright |
Lab |
32 |
4.6% |
| Paul Little |
LD |
435 |
62.9% |
| Robin Yates |
Lab |
179 |
25.9% |
| Jack Tomlinson |
C |
78 |
11.3% |
| Sylvia Emmott |
LD |
559 |
70.7% |
| Robert Rothwell |
Lab |
138 |
17.4% |
| Pamela Flitcroft |
C |
94 |
11.9% |
| Stephen Shine |
LD |
649 |
81.2% |
| Katherine Nicholson |
C |
150 |
18.8% |
| Clive Graham |
LD |
396 |
57.6% |
| Marilyn Molloy |
Lab |
217 |
31.5% |
| Eric Wright |
C |
75 |
10.9% |
| Robert Cocker |
LD |
345 |
65.5% |
| Avril Dobson |
Lab |
109 |
20.7% |
| Lucia Cartmell |
C |
43 |
8.2% |
| Andrew Billson-Page |
SWHG |
30 |
5.7% |
| Gwendoline Murfin |
LD |
479 |
60.1% |
| Nigel Blamire |
Ind |
189 |
23.7% |
| Andrew Coates |
C |
129 |
16.2% |
| Clare Feeney-Johnson |
LD |
471 |
65.9% |
| Paul Braithwaite |
Lab |
182 |
25.5% |
| Melvin Mackie |
C |
62 |
8.7% |
| Jonathan Brook |
LD |
626 |
74.0% |
| Geoffrey Robson |
C |
99 |
11.7% |
| Nigel Byrom |
Ind |
62 |
7.3% |
| Keith Fawcett |
Lab |
31 |
3.7% |
| Anna Billson-Page |
SWHG |
28 |
3.3% |
| Brendan Jameson |
LD |
528 |
74.9% |
| Olga Lewis |
C |
96 |
13.6% |
| Leonard Edgar |
SWHG |
46 |
6.5% |
| Jonathan Briggs |
Grn |
35 |
5.0% |
| Graham Vincent |
LD |
643 |
68.6% |
| Richard Liddle |
C |
215 |
22.9% |
| Jennifer Rothwell |
Lab |
79 |
8.4% |
| Stephen Coleman |
LD |
671 |
74.8% |
| Helen Graham |
C |
116 |
12.9% |
| Mark Kidd |
Lab |
110 |
12.3% |
| Robert Curry |
LD |
488 |
66.5% |
| Marilyn Jowett |
Lab |
141 |
19.2% |
| David Williams |
C |
59 |
8.0% |
| Charles Batteson |
SWHG |
46 |
6.3% |
| Rodger Read |
C |
531 |
57.8% |
| Jennifer Foot |
LD |
388 |
42.2% |
| David Earnshaw |
LD |
1018 |
69.3% |
| John Curwen |
C |
452 |
30.7% |
| Vivienne Rees |
LD |
433 |
70.5% |
| Thomas Holden |
C |
181 |
29.5% |
| Craig Stephenson |
LD |
878 |
54.2% |
| David Wilson |
C |
741 |
45.8% |
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